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Title
Birdseye view of the Rainbow Pier in Long Beach, ca.1935
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1935
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a birdseye view of the Rainbow Pier in Long Beach, ca.1935. The pier is at left and surrounds a the Municipal Auditorium, which is built on a small peninsula that juts into the water at left. A roller coaster can be seen in the distance at left. At center and right, the tall buildings of the city are visible. There are many of them, including one tall building with a conical tower on top. A low, gently sloping mountain can be seen in the distance at left, while the beach is visible in the foreground at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5821
USC-1-1-1-5930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14506
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5821
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14506.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General views--Pier and pike
Piers
Beaches
Time Period
circa 1935
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32-173 [Microfiche number]
14506 [Accession number]
CHS-14506 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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